<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal">CCI Antiracism Film/Discussion Series:<o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i>Un</i><span style="font-style:normal">natural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b><i>Un</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>natural Causes</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"> is a groundbreaking film series that reveals some reasons why some of us get sicker more often and die sooner. There’s more to our wellbeing than genes, behaviors, and medical care; <b><i>Un</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>natural Causes</b></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt"> documents how inequities in the rest of our lives – the jobs we do, the stress we experience, the neighborhoods we live in – can get under the skin and disrupt our biology as surely as germs and viruses. Solutions lie not in more pills but in more equitable social policies.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">When the Bough Breaks</span></i></b><span style="font-weight: normal;font-style:normal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Can racism become embedded in the body and affect birth outcomes?</span><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">F<b>eb 24 Wednesday<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>Noon-1:30 p.m.<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>The Community Change Library on Racism<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>14 Beacon Street, Room 605<o:p></o:p></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b>Boston MA 02139<o:p></o:p></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">African American infant mortality rates remain twice as high as for white Americans. African/American mothers with college degrees or higher face the same risk of having low birth-weight babies as white women who haven’t finished high school. How might the chronic stress of racism over the life course become embedded in our bodies and increase risks?</p><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal">Please join Community Change Staff and friends for a screening of this film followed by a community conversation. Please bring your lunch. Beverages will be provided. $5 contribution requested. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED: RSVP 617-523-0555, <a href="mailto:janet@communitychangeinc.org">janet@communitychangeinc.org</a><o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><b>Community Change, Inc.</b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> was born out of the Civil Rights Movement and in response to the Kerner Commission which named racism as "a white problem." Since 1968, CCI has done what few organizations are willing to do: shine a spotlight on the roots of racism in white culture with the intention of dealing with racism at its source, as well as with its impact on communities of color.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment-->
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